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Intro:
Tonight, we will continue our series through the book of have titled this series, [Matters of the Heart], and the subject of my message is, [My Heart Needs His Spirit].
When I lived in Salem, I went hunting with a good friend.
We got up early, drove to the woods, got in the tree stand, and waited.
After a few hours, he heard a noise and turned around there it was, the monster buck he wanted for the season.
He turned around, shot his gun, and the twelve point buck dropped.
We were beyond excited.
We hurried down the tree stand, walked the couple hundred yards to the buck, and there he was, the trophy deer my friend wanted for years.
We were so excited we tied our rope to it and started to drag.
The adrenaline of the kill eclipsed the weight of the buck.
I asked first, do we need to gut it and make it lighter?
My friend said, no, we’ll be okay, we are strong and its not that far.
(only nearly a mile into the woods).
We were not in a field, we were in the middle of government land.
We walked up hill for a ways and downhill for a ways.
The longer we walked, the less excited I was, the heavier I started to breathe, and the more irritable I became.
I asked again, are you SURE we shouldn’t gut this thing, it would make it alot lighter.
Nope, we have enough strength.
The farther we pulled I noticed he began to get tired.
I remembered, your uncle told us to come and get him if we got one, should we go get him and get his help.
My friends pride would not allow that, we had to press on and keep dragging.
Finally, we stopped and rested.
Both exhausted, we heard someone walking our way.
It was his uncle.
He looked at us, and said, “boys, why don’t you gut this thing, it’d be a lot easier to move?” My friend looked at his uncle and answered, “hmm, that is a good idea, we should have done that a while back...”
Then we began to pull, his uncle said, this had to have been heavy, why didn’t you come get me, I told you I would help.
My friend answered, “hmm, that is a good idea, we should have done that a while back...”
By this point I was biting my tongue, choosing not to say what was really on my mind.
Later when I talked to my friend, I asked him, why didn’t we make the job easier and get help?
He indicated, he wanted to to do it alone, he felt he was strong enough without help!
Too often, this describes the mindset of many people.
Internally, they realize they need help, but they refuse to call out to God.
They realize the journey is hard, yet they continue to walk alone.
The reason for this mindset: PRIDE.
Pride keeps people from acknowledging they need help.
Pride keeps people from praying.
Pride keeps people from depending on the Holy Spirit.
Pride is a dangerous place because:
And I think we both fell at least once pulling that deer.
In his letter to the church in Corinth, Paul removes any pride and speaks honestly and openly with a church he dearly loved.
Whereas false teachers pridefully tried to undermine Paul, Paul chose to be honest and open with them.
He did not put on airs, he was not pretentious, instead, he was open and honest.
Last chapter we studied how Paul emphasized how he could triumph through Christ.
Knowing that some would accuse Paul of pride and arrogance, he explained that the driving force of all he did was the power of God through the Holy Spirit.
As I read chapter three, I said, “My Heart Needs His Spirit!”
If we are going to make it in these last days, we have to lay down and sense of pride or self-sufficiency and depend totally on the power of God!
I want to look at three areas where the Holy Spirit works with us, [His Spirit and Reputation], [His Spirit and Redemption], and [His Spirit and Revelation].
Let’s begin
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His Spirit and Reputation
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Protecting our reputation is important.
If a Christian has a tarnished reputation, then their testimony is limited.
One of the ways that the false teachers attempted to discredit Paul is by claiming he did not have a good reputation.
How could they make such a claim?
In those days, when an evangelist, pastor, and Christian leader came to a new area, they would bring a letter of recommendation with them.
This letter would vouch for them and their ministry.
When I moved to Salem, Pastor Davis wrote a letter of recommendation for me.
He told me, I can help you get into some places to preach, but your ministry will determine if you get invited back.
This letter would vouch for them and thier ministry.
Thankfully, I went back to most of the places I preached, and even went back to pastor one of the churches where I held revivals!
The false teachers questioned Paul’s ministry because they had not seen his letter of recommendation.
Paul’s answer?
If you want proof that the Spirit is at work through me, look at the church in Corinth.
They were the living epistle.
Through the ministry of Paul and his associates, the Spirit of the Living God wrote on the hearts of people, transforming them, and building His church in Corinth.
Paul’s point, people wanted letters written by men, Paul had a reputation of supernatural power, written by God.
Paul hearkens back to his oft mentioned discussion on the law.
Under the law, Pride was revealed in the hearts of people.
They often trusted in self to keep up appearances and do the right thing.
But the law kills.
Meaning, it is incapable of bring life, instead it leads to death.
When I read the law, I realize the righteousness of God and my inability to live up to His standards.
Under the law, my reputation was that of an unrighteous, unholy, person.
But because of the Spirit, we have life!
Ours should be a reputation of total dependance on the Lord!
We should cry out, My Heart Needs His Spirit, without His Spirit, our reputation will not be as successful as it could.
2. His Spirit and Redemption
2 Corinthians
Knowing the Holy Spirit helps our reputation, Paul discussed the moment when everything changed.
To make his point, he used Moses as an example.
Moses was the one who recieved the Law from God. God spoke to him, placed the law on tablets of stone.
After forty days on the mountaintop, Moses walked down with the law in hand.
His face shined with the glory of God.
The Lord told Moses He would not go with Israel anymore.
They had sinned too much.
Moses pleaded with the Lord and the Lord relented.
Moses asked to see the Glory of God and God hid him in the cleft of the rock.
I love this story, but think of the context.
He encountered the glory of God as he recieved the law.
The same law that brings death.
Paul’s point?
If receiving the law enabled Moses to experience the glory of God, how much more glorious will it be when we experience grace?
The law brings condemnation, but the Spirit brings life!
No wonder Paul told the church in Rome:
When we were under the law of sin, the glory of God was present.
But when entered grace, God’s glory increased.
How did we enter grace?
Through our redemption.
When we accepted Christ everything changed.
If our hearts could make it on our own, the Law would have worked.
But the Holy Spirit showed us there is a better way.
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